Completed Critique Sharbat Gula, the Afghan girl.

[Pepa]

Hi planeteers!!

This is my rendering of this 1/9 scale bust sculpted by Romain Van den Bogaert a few years ago. I liked it since first time I saw his sculpture work about it.... and I knew I would end up painting one for me. Finally, this year I obtained my copy and here is my finished version. Since already you will have supposed, both, sculpture and painting, are inspired on National Geographic's 1985 famous cover. I have only tried to catch the magic look of this Afghan girl, though only this be in a small part (sorry for my bad english ).

More Info about Sharbat´s life on My blog (in spanish).

Or also in the article A life revealed

Kisses.

PD: painted with airbrush/brush and acrylics paints.

 

[Meehan34]

Wow Pepa! You did your magic once again! This is just an awesome job!

 

[pmfs]

Hola Pepa!

GALATIC PAINTING AS USUAL. THIS IS FAR FAR AWAY ANOTHER GALAXY PERHAPS.
Mi encanta la pintura Pepa es una expresión pura del arte en todo su esplendor.
UN BESO,
Pedro.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Wow! This girl is very difficult to paint, but You did it very well, I think.

Even the outlining of the eyes are - IMHO - a bit hard, You did a phantastic paintjob. Bravo!

Cheers

 

[mil-mart]

Pepa , beautiful painting, you have set the standard for this stunning sculpt. Congratulations.

Cheers Ken

 

[Loupdemort]

Nice vivid colours!

 

[sd0324]

Outstanding paint! So vibrant and lifelike,almost looks like a portrait. What a great rendition.

 

[gilbertmoreno]

Pepa,
There are almost no words.
Incredible painting as usual.

 

[ArturM]

just amazing...!

 

[megroot]

Absolutely perfect paintwork.

Marc

 

[brian]

Stunning Pepa!!!
Brian

 

[Kisifer]

Brilliant work. Simply magnificent.

Xenofon

 

[Sokol]

The finest drapery I've ever seen
Like Caravaggio in 3D! Truly amazing!

 

[stu]

Stunning/ amazing what more can you say.

Stuart

 

[gordy]

Beautiful !

 

[Stephan]

Stunning, you kept a moment shes thinking about.
Beautiful red.

 

[Edorta]

I´m sure that we all know the famous photo of this girl, and I think the most difficult to do is catch his look, and you did it. It´s really really nice. I like very much the dark-brick-red of her tunic. Excelente!

http://www.mininet.tv/egminiatures.html

 

[Ferris]

Extremely well done Pepa!

I have this on the bench now and if mine can be half as good as yours, I'll be very happy!

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[Figurenfreund66]

Magic eyes, fantastic Face - unbelievably great in red.

Cheers

Hendryk

 

[Mike Stevens]

Outstanding paint! So vibrant and lifelike,almost looks like a portrait. What a great rendition.

Well done Sir!